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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Surely the policy needs to be looked at from the point of view of cover being there without having to necessarily identify the vehicle.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: And that was not the case before.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Money was spent trying to make the insurance retrospective. My understanding is IFI engaged a firm of solicitors to deal with that and a cost was incurred. You cannot make insurance retrospective.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: IFI engaged a firm of solicitors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: If an accident did not happen, those 16 vehicles could still be going around without insurance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Ms Bradley is satisfied there are enough checks and balances there now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: On insurance for premises, boats, etc., is IFI satisfied it has adequate procedures in place to make sure a slip-up like this does not arise again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Is IFI satisfied it has adequate insurance for buildings it owns as regards public liability?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Remember insurance is any one event, so if ten people are injured in one accident, the limit is for the ten people rather than ten individual claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I am asking about insurance for limited liability. Is IFI satisfied it has adequate cover in relation to limited liability?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I move on to a different issue, namely, legal costs incurred. In prosecutions, one has to engage with people. Is IFI satisfied it has adequate procedures for getting value for money in relation to legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: IFI has taken a judicial review case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Was that a board decision to take that judicial review? What stage is the review at and what is its likely cost to the fisheries board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: The start of it was a board decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I ask the question because I have seen a scenario where the fisheries board objected to planning permission for a school and took it all the way to An Bord Pleanála even though the school gave a commitment to the fisheries board. I reckon that delay has cost €2 million to the project. Is there a policy for engaging on environmental issues with schools and local authorities where...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: In this case, there was not one. The issue basically was that the fishery board felt the sewage treatment facility in a small local community was not adequate for the school. The old school was already connected to the system. The school gave an undertaking that it would not increase the number of pupils but the fisheries board took it all the way to An Bord Pleanála and delayed the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I am asking whether there is a policy. In this case, it went all the way to An Bord Pleanála at a cost to the Department of Education and to the local community.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Is it not about time that there was a written policy because this is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I fully understand the fisheries board wanting to protect the environment. What I am saying is that in this case, there was no engagement. Even where the school authorities tried to have engagement it was a closed door.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I want to ask about co-ordination between local authorities and the fisheries board. Is the fisheries board satisfied there are enough processes in place so that there is a maximum benefit from its point of view and the delivery of the service that it is trying to provide? It is satisfied there are adequate processes in place for this engagement to be ongoing?